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CI/CD: Continuous Integration & Delivery Explained

CI/CD enables the best tech companies to improve their products many times per day. Here’s what you need to know to do the same. Summary CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Deployment). This approach automates the software release process, ensuring new changes are frequently tested, integrated, and delivered. Key Takeaways What is CI/CD? CI/CD is […]

Marko Anastasov

24 Sep 2019

iOS 13: The Top 5 Features Your App Needs Now

Today, we've outlined the 5 features for iOS 13 that can help improve your app's user experience and discoverability.

Amarildo Lucas

10 Sep 2019

Introducing CI/CD Pipeline Dependencies

We’re excited to announce that Semaphore can now run and visualize arbitrarily complex CI/CD pipelines. Although this new feature brings great power and is fueled by fancy-pants directed acyclic graph (or DAG) math theory, it’s actually super simple to use. All you need to do is define how elements of your pipeline depend on each […]

Darko Fabijan

22 Jul 2019

Scaling an Open Source mobile app with an ex-Googler Tim Cheadle

We talk with Tim Cheadle about what is important when thinking about CI/CD in the mobile context and his Open Source app that monitors population health.

Wojtek Cichoń

18 Jul 2019

Kubernetes Deployments: The Ultimate Guide

Ready to deploy that app you've just "dockerized"? Here's all you need to know about Kubernetes deployments to deliver your containers to production.

Jérôme Petazzoni

16 Jul 2019

Continuous Integration (CI) Explained

Continuous integration enables iterative software development, reduces risks from defects and makes developers highly productive. Summary Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice where developers regularly merge their code into a central repository. Each merge automatically triggers a build and tests, helping detect and fix issues early. In other words, CI involves committing changes frequently […]

Marko Anastasov

27 Jun 2019

Launching Semaphore Podcast: The Uncut Chats

I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Semaphore Podcast which is a natural continuation of the Semaphore Uncut Chats that I’ve started a few months ago. We, as leaders in the software development space and mentors for our technical teams, are all on the same mission to build great software products, ship them […]

Darko Fabijan

30 May 2019

Define your CI/CD environment with Docker

The range of applications that you can run on Semaphore keeps growing. After native support for iOS, today we’re happy to announce that you can run your CI/CD in any Docker image. This means that Semaphore now supports any technology stack that works with Docker out of the box. Docker has become a standard for […]

Marko Anastasov

29 May 2019

Introducing Semaphore for iOS, a supercharged CI/CD service

Introducing Semaphore for iOS, a serverless CI/CD service which makes it easy to build, test and deploy applications for any Apple device.

Marko Anastasov

15 May 2019

A first look at Google Cloud Run

Google has launched Cloud Run, a new solution for running serverless applications based on Docker containers, this month at its Cloud Next ’19 conference. What we can say now is this is an important step for serverless computing — deploying to Cloud Run is much easier than running containers on Kubernetes. It also has no architectural […]

Marko Anastasov

24 Apr 2019

Why a Well-Oiled CI/CD Pipeline Makes for a Happy DevOps Team

JJ Asghar’s role as a developer advocate for IBM has immersed him in helping organizations make the transition to cloud native ecosystems and to IBM Cloud’s Kubernetes Service. Previously, Asghar was the OpenStack go-to-guy at Chef Software. In this interview, Asghar has drawn from his deep well of hands-on and high-level experience to describe the trials and tribulations […]

Wojtek Cichoń

23 Apr 2019

When SREs and Kubernetes Are Worth It And When They Aren’t

Seth Vargo is a developer relations engineer at Google. He previously held software-development roles at HashiCorp, Chef Software, CustomInk and a few Pittsburgh-based startups. Passionate about reducing inequality in technology, Vargo is also the author of “Learning Chef.”

Wojtek Cichoń

18 Apr 2019

Two Key Docker Benefits and How to Attain Them

In 2013, Solomon Hykes showed a demo of the first version of Docker during the PyCon conference in Santa Clara. Since then, the benefits of Docker containers have spread to seemingly every corner of the software industry. While Docker (the project and the company) made containers so popular, they were not the first project to […]

Jérôme Petazzoni

16 Apr 2019

Introducing a Next-generation Parallel Config Management tool

James Shubin is a DevOps/config-management hacker and physiologist from Canada. He writes “The Technical Blog of James.” He also works on a next-generation config-management project he started called “mgmt.” In this interview, we discuss Shubin’s open source project and how it can contribute to the cloud-native landscape. You’re the lead developer behind mgmt, which is a “next-generation distributed, […]

Wojtek Cichoń

11 Apr 2019

Docker’s Gareth Rushgrove on the Importance of CI/CD Pipelines and the Future of Containers

Gareth Rushgrove is an experienced software and operations engineer, working as a product manager at Docker. Additionally, he’s the editor of one of the most widely read newsletters in the DevOps community, “DevOps Weekly.” In this interview, we talk with Rushgrove about his current work at Docker, what is the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), the importance […]

Wojtek Cichoń

2 Apr 2019

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